, 1887-12-08

member of either branch Of the leg
iSlature; he Is - wears old. While
the nomination for Gable was being
voted on. the ber Thompson, IN a
hallucination Of mind.
voted nav" but corrected himself
very handsomely SharpsteIu, Of
Walla Walla. then arose and said
that the democratic side Of the coun-
cIl desired to speedily begin the
work Of the session and to do SO
amIcably and without partisan feel
ing. Convey. of ThuTsIon county,
to the proposition on the
part Of the republicans. The Rev,
arising to second the nom
inatiop. from force of habit addressed
the members as "hrothera" hut he
suspiciously Immediately
and looked hard at Mr..
Foster. The probable reason will be
explained further on. The following
were agreed on: Repub-
Iicans: Milton Gable, J NJ Steel and
o { White. Democrats: Henry Roe
der, Joseph Foster, " j Barker In
the House the temporary organizes
ton was effected. " VI Clarke was
elected Speaker. and the same was
made permanent according to pro
gramme. as follows; ARA Smith. Of
Whitman, nominated CLARK; Fellows,
of Spokane. nominated " 4 Bucey
(dem1, Of Lincoln.
The party vote was cast aud ARA
smith and Fellows were named to
conduct Mr.. Clark to the chair. He
took it without further ado than to
say We Will proceed"
Paul D'Hierry was chosen without
opposition for sergeant at arms
Secretary Owings administered oath
for temporary organization, and then
Irwin nominated Tom Nicklin for
chief clerk, and keane nominated
VIM. IL Hughes, but the latter de-
clined, and Nicklin was chosen by ac-
clamation, as was also Hughes for
assistant. The rules of 1883 adopted
temporarily as those of last year
were not to be had, Mrs Isabella
Lampken was chosen enrolling clerk
over Bertha Piper, by a vote of 10 to
5. Ella Cluk engrossing clerk over
Nina Troop and Bertha Piper, the
vote standing respectively IA, 6 and 4.
Following officers were elected:
Messenger, S. Nj. Percival; door
keeper, j. E. Taylor; " Watchman, l..
L. Bowers; Chaplain, Rev. Massey.
As all the officers are republicans
Humes thought it unnecessary to
swear them, but Elder said that for
that very reason they should be
sworn twice. House then adjourned
till ten tomorrow.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
HALIFAX, n. S., Dee. 6.-An engine
of the international railway, while
standing at SteliartOn, yesterday at
tached to a train, exploded, killing
three men and seriously injuring a
number of others The train had
just hauled up at the station and the
conductor and driver were in tue
Office for orders. About two minutes
after the latter left the engine a ter
rible explosion took place. completely
wrecking the engine and throwing
the fire box about twenty yards on
the platform. Four men, who were
at the engine at the time, were blown
into the air and three were killed
instantly. The fourth man, Alex
ander Murray, was terribly injured
and died shortly afterwards. The
names of the killed are Daniel Rob-
ertson, Alexander Frazier and Wm.
Eastwood. All leave large families.
DESPERATE MUTINY.
BosToN, Dec. 5.-The bark Free
man, Captain Howes, arrived here
from Yokohama today after an ex-
citing trip with a crew of japanese
sailors that circumstances had com
PEELED the commander to ship there.
During the early part of the voyage
tho crew We're ugly, matters finally
eliminating IN an attack upon the
captains life, which resulted in the
death of the chief mutineer.
Upon his arrival this morning Capt.
Howes was arrested by a United
States marshal for murder on the
high seas, which he took cody. He
says the fatal row began over an eff
fort OF his part to compel one of the
crew, fellow noted for his unclean
habits, to wash himself.
The captain says: "The man at
tackled me with knife. The only
thing l could do was to shoot | had
my revolver in my right hand, and
as his bUdy came in contact with the
muzzle l fired. The bullet went
through his breast and he fell like a
log The next day we buried the
man in the sea, and l had no fur
ther trouble with tho crew"
NoBoDY's BUSINESS.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 6.-In reference
to the report os the fiscal connection
of Mitkiewitz to the Wharton Barker
Chinese banking syndicate being
about to be severed, Barker said this
morning: 'Metkiewitz fulfilled his
engagement and severed his official
connection with US some time since.
His only connection with us or inter
est III syndicate since. has been that
of a stockholder. If he has disposed
OF his shares l know nothing of it
Its matter of his own personal in
terest, and has no significance OF
effect on officers of the syndicate"
THE COUNCIL DEADLOCK.
OLYMPIA, Dec. 6.-No business of
Importance to-day. The House ad-
journed at 1l:30 a. m. No Governors
message presented. The deadlock
continues III the council with no i'm
mediate prospect of agreeing.
KILLED RV THE ctTrC1-
LYONS, n. Y, Dec. 6.-Elmer E.
Wood, manager of the Canandaguia
blectric Light Company, was killed
hy an electric shock here last owe
mng. He noticed that lamp on the
street was not burning brightly and
attempted to fix the carbon points.
his kid glove was wet, and coming
IN contact with the magnetic part of
the lamp, he received a terrible shock.
He dropped unconscious upon the
ground and when picked up a mo-
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